reopen 240901 thanks On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:23:13AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: [...] > > I was not referring to the bugreport, but this specific message, in > > particular: > > Not filling in the am/pm strings is a mean to say that the > > people in the country the locale is fow are not to backward > > as to use the am/pm format anymore. This definitely is the > > case for the UK. > > Judging by the writing the author of that text isn't a native speaker of > English, so I'm not sure where this information comes from. While the > AM/PM format is inferior to the 24-hour format in many ways, it is most > certainly false to claim that people in the UK do not use the AM/PM > format. AM/PM is still significantly more common than 24-hour in UK > everyday speech, signs, written communication, and so on, and I think > the onus ought to be on the author of the above to back up his extremely > surprising statement with facts. > > To take an example, Hansard, the official records of parliamentary > debates in the House of Commons, records times in the AM/PM format: > > > http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/cm040329/debtext/40329-06.htm#40329-06_time0
Ok, reopening this bugreport then. But note that one has now to convince upstream or Debian glibc maintainers. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
